Some grey Red Starts have a black band round 
their necks, and their plumage is more brilliant 
ihefe are fuppofed to be the males. 
The BLUE THROATED WARBLER, 
The bread ferrugineous, with a blue band, the tail fea¬ 
thers dufky, ferrugineous towards the bafe. 
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This bird, except in colour, very much referu¬ 
bles the Robin Red-breaft ; it frequents the bor¬ 
ders of woods, marfhes, and moift meadows, 
willow beds, and reeds, and with the love of 
folitude that diftinguifhes the Red-breaft durh 
part of the year, it feems to have the fame famili 
arity with man ; for, after fpending the fummer 
in thefe retired fituations, in the autumn, it fre¬ 
quents hedges, avenues, and gardens, and Lifters 
you to approach near enough to beat it down with 
‘a farbacan ; a farbacan is a hollow tube, or cane, 
through which peas, &c. are blown. 
Seldom more than a pair of the Blue-throated 
Warblers are feen together. At the clofe of the 
fummer they refort to corn fields, and fome- 
times make their nefts there, but more generally 
upon willows, oilers, and plants, that grow in 
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